United States v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 385 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2024
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · Beck v. Alabama · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Griffin v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court has the broad discretion 'to comment reasonably upon the evidence, being careful not to become an advocate for any of the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not the function of this Court to reweigh conflicting evidence or consider the credibility of witnesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.